DBMS > DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

GridGain Systems, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2007

2015

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Security Hooks for custom implementations

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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